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Title: The Road to Monticello
Subtitle: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Narrator: David Baker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-31-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures
Publisher's Summary:
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.
In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by offering a lively account of Jefferson's spiritual and intellectual development, focusing on the books and ideas that exerted the most profound influence on him. Moving chronologically through Jefferson's life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson's literary passions, from the popular "small books" sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Tom Thumb, which enthralled him as a child; to his lifelong love of Aesop's Fables and